Frankly Answered Questions

Dennis Rupert was the pastor of NLCC for 26 years. From time to time, he received emails with questions about the Bible, doctrine and life. Here are some of the questions that he received and answers that he gave.

• A million dollars to answer a tithe question!
• Are all foods now “clean”?
• Are all sins the same?
• Are cherubs and angels the same?
• Are the days in Genesis, chapter one literal 24-hour days?
• Are we saved by faith or by faith and works? Doesn’t James contradict Paul?
• Can a believer lose his salvation according to Matthew 24:45-51?
• Can a Christian lose their salvation?
• Can Satan read minds or put thoughts in your mind?
• Can the Holy Spirit be taken away from us?
• Did Adam and Eve’s children commit incest?
• Did Adam and Eve’s children commit incest?
• Did angels marry humans and give birth to giants (Genesis 6)?
• Did God change His mind?
• Did Jesus Know Everything?
• Do I have to get baptized and keep the ten commandments to go to heaven?
• How can God condemn people who never heard of Jesus?
• How do I answer skeptics’ questions about the Bible?
• Is Jesus a human being?
• Is Mark 16:9-20 part of God’s Holy Word?
• Is the God of the Old Testament the same as the God of the New Testament?
• Is the God of the Old Testament the same as the God of the New Testament?
• Is what the Jehovah Witnesses are teaching me correct?
• Jesus seems to keep violating the Jewish laws regarding the Sabbath. Why did He do that?
• Predestination or Foreknowledge?
• Questions on Free Will
• Should confession be out loud?
• Shouldn’t the Sabbath be on Saturday?
• Was Jesus God?
• Was the wine that Jesus drank the same as wine today?
• What about the psalms that call for destruction of people?
• What about the tree of life and has anybody ever seen God?
• What does it mean to ask in Jesus’ name?
• What does it mean to turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:39)?
• What does the Bible say about birth control?
• What does the Bible say about tattoos and piercings?
• What does the Bible say about tattoos and piercings?
• What is a “Heave Offering?”
• What is the “Song of Songs?”
• What is the Book of Enoch?
• What translation of the Bible do you recommend?
• What’s wrong with sex before marriage?
• When Did Satan Fall from Heaven?
• When is the Day of Atonement? (Jewish Calendars)
• Where did evil come from?
• Where did Jesus go between His death and resurrection?
• Where does it say in the New Testament that offerings should go to the local church?
• Who decided what books got into the Bible?
• Who was Melchizedek?
• Why did God allow temple items to be given to the Babylonians?
• Why do we need a new heaven?
• Why do you feel the need to preach the law of the tithe?
• Why do you feel the need to preach the law? (Part 2)
• Why would a loving God make a man, knowing that the man would reject God, and that God would then have to send the man to eternal damnation?
• Will there be a rapture of the church?